President Donald Trump received widespread criticism this week after derisively referring to Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” during a ceremony honoring Native American war heroes.

Many, including members the Navajo Nation to which those being honored belonged, saw Trump’s use of the revered name as an insult and racial slur. Trump has used the moniker multiple times in reference to Warren.

Trump’s defenders, including White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, argued the nickname was warranted, referencing allegations that the Massachusetts senator falsely claimed Native American heritage to advance her career.

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As The Hill reported, Eric Trump took a different approach in defending his father by pointing out what he believed to be the hypocrisy of one news outlet in particular choosing to report on the controversy.

The irony of an ABC reporter (whose parent company Disney has profited nearly half a billion dollars on the movie “Pocahontas”) inferring that the name is “offensive” is truly staggering to me.

He remarked on the perceived “irony” of a journalist working indirectly for the Disney corporation to criticize the use of Pocahontas’ name.

Disney, he wrote, “has profited nearly half a billion dollars on the movie ‘Pocahontas,'” adding that an ABC News reporter “inferring that the name is ‘offensive’ is truly staggering to me.”

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His equivalency resonated with some Twitter users, though it did not stand unchallenged.

A number of news outlets, including the New York Daily News, published pieces attempting to debunk the younger Trump’s logic.

“Trump doesn’t seem to grasp that his father’s coopting of Pocahontas’ name and legacy to use as a belittling insult of Warren — during an event for Native American World War II heroes, no less — is offensive to many people, regardless of Disney’s profits from the 1995 animated movie,” Ariel Scotti wrote.

A clear majority of the responses to his tweet were critical, including numerous comments arguing that context is important when determining whether the use of Pocahontas’ name might be considered offensive.

One Navajo Nation council delegate commented on the incident, calling Trump’s quip “careless” and “problematic” and describing it as evidence of “systemic, deep-seated ignorance of Native Americans and our intrinsic right to exist and practice our ways of life.”